Apparently a caster necromancer class might never be added to WoW. But what about adding a new talent spec for warlocks (or mages) that have necromancy talents and skills?
Or make some kind of customization/skin/whatever for warlocks (and other classes) to appear as a necromancer instead of a demon summoner. So skeletons instead of imps etc.
Does anyone think any of this would be interesting?
Adding other exotic specs to other classes would be cool too. Any ideas for the other classes?
for necromancy to work it would have to be a class for the horde like the undead. it´s such an evil practice and a sane paladin would have no choice but to go wipe any dark users out.
Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.
And yet we have DKs on both factions. As an aestethic we already have necromancers, its called unholy deatg knight. What we want though is that aestethic but as a caster and not a melee.
Evil Paladins? Huh, smelling some Scarlet Crusade and bit of Lightforged energy here.
I’m not too sure about Nocromancers as a class, but more and nicely incormporated into the Death Knight class would be a nice treatmeant for Death Knights.
I think there’s an old developer video where Blizzard talks about Wrath of the Lich King and how they considered different possible classes - Lich, Necromancer, Runemaster, Deathknight, Blood Knight, and so on.
And in Blizzard’s “concentrated coolness” fashion, they just took the conceptual ideas of each and baked them into the Deathknight class. And that’s why the class has an element of a Runemaster with its runes, and why it has frost skills from the Lich idea, undead stuff belonging to a Necromancer, blood stuff, and so on. The Deathknight is all of that in one class concept.
So it’s hard to see a Necromancer specialization happening, because Blizzard kind of already used it.
First wave of warlocks created the first wave of necromancers.
Warlocks through kil’jaeden meddling → Necrolytes → DK gen 1/2, Ner’Zhul is kinda messy with him being a shaman → Lich king through more kil’jaeden meddling → Necromancer → DK gen 3/4
Yeah, unfortunately necro overlap a tad much with both warlock and DK already. And their inclusion would inevitably be a 3rd intrusion on the warlock’s kit.
Old lore was that warlocks (Gul’dan) created DKs. And we do have some slivers of warlocks using death magic still, stuff like collecting souls and the mortal coil spell to name a few, but yeah our class fantasy has moved away from that and more towards the demons.
Imagine a quest where (kinda like the green flame quest) demonology warlocks make a decision to abandon working with demons and instead become necromancers, e.g. they find a special tome.
They could have all the same spells, just re-do the visuals and spell names. Imps are skeletons, tyrant is Lich, dreadstalkers are vampires etc. Then create some alternative mogs. It would all be a pretty simple fix that would scratch that necro itch in the absence of a true class.
We just need spec or class skins…a necromancer or drust summoner skin for warlocks, a fel knight skin for paladins or warriors, lightforged skins for hunters, warriors, rogues…etc etc. I mean you could do some pretty cool stuff by just changing some colors of abilities. Imagine an elemental shaman with green fire spells and red lightning. Just need spec or class skins!
Unholy DK’s are your necromancer class. Blizzard just needs to improve on it to expand it from just summoning minions (don’t get me started on Blizzard’s laziness, or more likely, complete and utter apathy, on THAT front ever since WotLK was launched) and casting diseases.
Instead of simple lazy reskinning of existing races and calling them “Allied races” or “new races” I’d rather see them work on the existing classes and fleshing them out more.
But that’s not gonna happen, and neither is this necromancer. Or Bard.
